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Re: Facebook Image Privacy
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:08:44 +0100
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Imri Goldberg <lorgandon () gmail com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>wrote:The URL may not be obvious, but it’s on a publically-accessible site so it’s at least a little cheesy to call it private. What do you think?If it's publicly available, it ain't private.
And a computer that isn't at the bottom of the Mariana Trench ain't secure. Unguessable tokens have a long history of use in our field (CSRF tokens, etc) and having one lock access to an image is relatively legitimate. If there was a way to guess the token, we'd say there was an issue.
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